IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Querencia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NM043001
  • User Pedon ID: 87NM043001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987NM043001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0683
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 35.7127762
  • Std. Longitude: -106.9988861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sandoval Co; 3.9 mi S of Hwy 44 on San Luis Rd; 500 feet S of curve sign in range land.
  • Map Unit: 231—Querencia loam, 1 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM043—Sandoval
  • MLRA: 36—Southwestern Plateaus, Mesas, and Foothills
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM656—Sandoval County Area, New Mexico, Parts of Los Alamos, Sandoval, and Rio Arriba Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35106-F8—Holy Ghost Spring, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Ahrens and L. Hacker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ustic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Querencia
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Querencia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ustollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    Bouteloua gracilis

    blue grama

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—5

    5—216

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    9

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    1928

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    45

    25

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine vesicular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03647. many fine roots
    1Bw1—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03648. many fine roots
    1Bw2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent carbonate coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03649. few lime or carbonate coats surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; many fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 232254; patchy - phpvsfiid 232254
    1Bk1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent carbonate coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03650. few lime or carbonate coats surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 232255; patchy - phpvsfiid 232255
    1Bk2—53 to 89 centimeters (20.9 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent carbonate coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03651. few lime or carbonate coats surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 232256; patchy - phpvsfiid 232256
    2Bk3—89 to 112 centimeters (35.0 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent prominent , moist, carbonate coats; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03652; moist when described;. very few lime or carbonate coats surface features; few fine roots
    3Bk4—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent carbonate coats; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03653. very few lime or carbonate coats surface features; patchy - phpvsfiid 232258; patchy - phpvsfiid 232258
    4Bky—127 to 216 centimeters (50.0 to 85.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent carbonate coats; 11 percent medium irregular gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 87P03654. May be buried Bt horizon.; common medium masses of gypsum concentrations; few lime or carbonate coats surface features; patchy - phpvsfiid 232259; patchy - phpvsfiid 232259
    2Cr—216 centimeters (85.0 inches); fragments. Mudstone from Mancos shale.